My childhood was spent moving from country to country as my father’s work demanded, so I was fortunate enough to be raised in the UK, Greece, Korea, Hong Kong and (as my parents’ must have been bitten by the travel bug) long road trips across Europe, Asia and North America.
While some might have found the constant upheaval challenging, I relished it and believe that those early experiences shaped my adult perspective – flexible, strategic and solution focussed.
What was I doing before I joined Cardinal Solutions?
My professional experience includes a number of years in Human Resources, Operations and Organisational Development in a range of industries including Retail, Travel and Health. As well as enjoying a varied and successful business career, I am an accredited life coach and have been involved in community education projects. This experience has honed a great eye for detail as well as an overall big picture perspective.
My training delivery expertise includes Leadership & Management, Train the Trainer, Goal-setting, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, and Sales and Customer Service.
Why do I work with Cardinal Solutions?
I am passionate about empowering others to realise their potential by developing their skill base and building personal confidence. I believe in empowering others through targeted and energetic training delivery and am known for my passionate, humorous and down to earth approach.
My business experience ensures that I am extremely results focussed and I believe in getting those results through people and team work. I have a contagious enthusiasm for finding positive and solution focussed approaches to a range of business and leadership problems and find that this perspective sits perfectly with Cardinal Solutions strategic approach.
What do I do at Cardinal Solutions?
As a Business Navigator with Cardinal Solutions, I deliver thought provoking, effective and fun training sessions that attendees enjoy, participate in and gain clear outcomes from. I create a learning environment in which participants can succeed through their own ideas and efforts, and in so doing, build positive momentum as participants are inspired by a fresh understanding of their own potential.
I have the patience, ability and imagination to deliver information by various means to ensure the message is clearly understood by people at all levels, and I get a great sense of satisfaction having participants leave training sessions knowledgeable, energised and motivated to succeed.
What do I do when not working?
Because I genuinely love what I do, many of my out-of-work activities are quite closely related to what I do for a living. I am regularly reading three or four books at once on the topics of behavioural psychology, philosophy, self improvement or business strategy. I am frequently called upon by friends and previous colleagues to assist in CV writing and interview preparation – fortunately for them I’m enough of a nerd to actually enjoy the process, so people are rarely turned away!
When it does all slow down a little though, my partner (‘the boy wonder’) and I will disappear off on long walks with our husky dog to one of the many fantastic beaches or forests mere minutes drive from our house. We’re also keen music fans and spend much of our time (and money) going to gigs and increasing our already ridiculous music collection. On the less beautiful days, I love cooking up a storm for the important people in my life, watching movies and talking nonsense into the wee small hours.
